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Dustin O'Halloran is known for:

  • The Old Guard
    Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.
  • Lion
    A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
  • The Hate U Give
    Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

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Biography

Dustin O'Halloran is an American pianist and composer with four acclaimed solo albums under his own name, and is a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Winner of a 2015 Emmy Award for his main title theme to Amazon's comedy drama "Transparent", he was also nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Critics Choice Award for his score to 2016's "Lion", written in collaboration with Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka). O'Halloran's film career began when Sofia Coppola invited him to contribute to 2006's "Marie Antoinette", and since then he's worked on multiple films and TV shows, including Drake Doremus' Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Like Crazy" (2011), and Marc Turtletaub's "Puzzle" (2018), for whose closing song he collaborated with veteran Scandinavian chart-topper Ane Brun. In 2018 he scored George Tillman Jr.'s "The Hate U Give" and joined forces with Bryan Senti for Nick Murphy's six-part Sky TV series "Save Me". He and Bertelmann reconvened for the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (2019), for Netflix's "The Old Guard" (2020) starring Charlize Theron, and Francis Lee's "Ammonite" (2020) starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. O'Halloran released his first EP "Sundoor" for renowned classical music label Deutsche Grammophon in 2019, with a new album in the works, and A Winged Victory for the Sullen, his ambient orchestral project with Adam Wiltzie, released their latest album, The Undivided Five, on Ninja Tune the same year. In addition, O'Halloran worked as a producer for Katy Perry's 'Into Me You See', from her 2017 album, Witness, and appears on Leonard Cohen's 2019 posthumous album, Thanks For The Dance. O'Halloran lives in Los Angeles and Reykjavík.